Quotes with spectators

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• I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

  Joseph Conrad
  In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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• It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.

  Angela Merkel
  German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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• It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

  Ansel Adams
  American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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• One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

  James C. Humes
  American author and former presidential speechwriter (1934 - )
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• The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

  Orson Welles
  American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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• The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

  Thomas B. Macaulay
  American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• observations
• impalpable
• spectators
• advertised
• programmes
• leadership

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